三毛,原名陈懋平(mào)(后改名为陈平),汉族,浙江舟山人,1943年3月26日白羊座出生于重庆黄桷桠。卒于1991年1月4日,享年四十八岁。“懋”是族谱上属她那一辈分的排行,“平”是取之她出生那年烽火连天,父亲期望这个世界再也没有战争,而给了这个孩子“和平”的大使命。后来这个孩子开始学写字,她无论如何都学不会如何写那个“懋”字。每次写名字时,都自作主张把中间那个字跳掉,偏叫自己陈平。不但如此,还把“陈”的左耳搬到隔壁去成为右耳,这么弄下来,父亲只好投降,她给自己取了名字,当时才三岁。后来把她弟弟们的“懋”字也都拿掉了。 1964年,陈平进入文化大学学习。获张其昀特许,进入院哲学系当选读生,成绩优异。1967年赴西班牙留学,后去德国、美国等。1973年定居西属撒哈拉沙漠和荷西结婚,并以当地的生活为背景,写出一连串脍炙人口的作品。1981年回台后,曾在文化大学任教,1984年辞去教职,而以写作、演讲为重心。1991年1月4日在医院去世,年仅四十八岁。 她极其单纯,在单纯中却有一种惊人的深刻。无论是做人还是写作,笔调自然轻快,不经意间说着最在意的人和事。 她的足迹遍及世界各地,她的作品也在全球的华人社会广为流传,在大陆也有广大的读者,生平著作和译作 三毛的丈夫,荷西十分丰富,共有二十四种。 三毛英文名叫ECHO,三毛本是笔名,从三毛的《闹学记》序中只提及“三毛”二字中暗藏一个易经的卦,上乾(三个阳爻,类似汉字“三”)下坤(三个阴爻就是中间断开,毛字竖弯勾)——否卦。卦象:上乾下坤,否卦,天清在上,地浊在下,天地之气不相交。闭塞不通,阻隔,事不顺畅。“大人否亨,内小人而外君子。”但三毛本人又曾说过:起初起此名,是因为喜欢张乐平先生的三毛流浪记(后拜为干爹);另有一个原因就是说自己写的东西很一般,只值三毛钱。 三毛的丈夫是荷西·马利安·葛罗 (Jose Maria Quero Y Ruiz),他比三毛小6岁。 荷西的国籍是西班牙。 职业是潜水工程师,后意外身亡。
San mao (三毛) (March 26, 1943 – January 4, 1991), literally "three hairs" though it is not considered to have a meaning, was the pseudonym of the popular Taiwanese author Chen Mao Ping. She adopted her pseudonym from the acclaimed caricaturist Zhang Leping's most famous work "Sanmao", which tells the story of a Shanghai street child named "Sanmao". In English she was also known as Echo, the first name she used in western European languages, or Echo Chan, based on the homonymous Greek nymph.
Sanmao's books deal mainly with her own experiences studying and living abroad. They were extremely well received not only in Taiwan but also in mainland China, and they remain popular reads today. From 1976 to the time of her death in 1991, Sanmao published more than 20 books. She also translated the comic Mafalda from Spanish to Chinese.
A mixed bag of short stories, in my opinion. I absolutely fell in love with the first 60% of the collection, especially stories that described San Mao's childhood in Taiwan - her coming of age. When I progressed into her foreign travels, I felt like she described details about foreign landscapes and furniture a little bit too much, leaving me forgetting where the general direction of her story was going. She also had two or three interview-style stories about dabbling in business/marketing which I did not think fit into the general tone of the book. However, Colors of the Butterfly (蝴蝶的颜色)is to this day my favorite short story ever (yeah quite a strong statement, right). It is haunting, it is innocent, it is foreboding, it is naive - especially because most readers know San Mao took her own life later on. So just for that story alone, great job San Mao.
3 stars not because I don't like the book, but because I only really liked and related the parts of the book where 三毛 shared personal parts of her life growing up in Taiwan, how she was a misfit, how she's read to the point of near extremity, how she became home-schooled, and the adventures she's went on abroad in East Germany, Spain, France etc. For a women growing up in her times, in her culture, 三毛is extremely brave to be able step outside of the box and pursue what she's truly passionate about- to be an artist, to be a writer, to be a philosopher. Her passion for reading, for the arts, and for chasing adventures simply seeps through the page and deeply touches the reader's heart. 三毛不在乎旁人的眼光,不追求世俗,只坚持做自己,追求自己的所爱,这也就是她最可爱之处。Her free spirit has inspired generations to come and is something that will definitely come to mind, whenever I shall hesitate about taking my next leap of faith in pursuing my passions and sought-after adventures.